Crime Report: Police Want Your Help

New York City Police DepartmentA camera captured a suspect and a person-of-interest in a shooting on Fulton Street and Cambridge Place.

Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a man they say shot a 35-year-old man on the corner of Fulton Street and Cambridge Place on Feb. 2 at 3:40 a.m. The suspect fired several shots at the victim, hitting him once in the leg, police said. Police also are looking for someone who was with the suspect at the time of shooting.

Police described the the suspect as a 25- to 35-year-old man, about 6-foot 1-inch tall and weighing 190 pounds. He was wearing a purple shirt at the time of the shooting, according to police. The man who accompanied the shooter was also described as a 25- to 35-year-old man.

If you have information about the robbery, call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Web site at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or by text message — text tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and then enter TIP577.

In addition to this unsolved crime, there were 14 felonies and three arrests in the 88th Precinct between Feb. 11 and Feb. 17.Fulton Street Beating

New York City Police DepartmentPolice are looking for help to find these three suspect in a Fulton Street beating.

A 24-year-old man was standing at the corner of Fulton Street and Washington Avenue on Feb. 16 at 4 a.m., when several people
approached him and began beating him, a witness who identified himself as the man’s cousin told officers. The attackers kicked and punched the victim’s head while he was on the ground, the witness said. When police arrived at the scene, the man was unconscious and couldn’t talk, according to police reports. He was taken to Kings County Hospital Center for treatment, police said.

Random Attacks

-A man grabbed a 30-year-old woman’s hair, pulled her to the ground, and stole her purse on Feb. 12 at 9:30 p.m. on Washington Avenue near DeKalb Avenue, according to the police. The woman noticed that the man had stopped in front of her. When she passed him, he attacked. The victim’s bag contained $250 and an iPhone. Officers canvassed the area but found no trace of the suspect, police said.

-A 31-year-old woman was walking toward her house on Feb. 14 at 7:45 p.m. when, at the corner of Prince Street and Myrtle Avenue, four strangers attacked her, police said. One hit her in the head with a hard object, causing cuts, according to police. She was taken to Kings County Hospital Center for treatment, cops said.

-A 49-year-old female employee of the Brooklyn Hospital Center told police that a woman in the hospital picked up and threw hard plastic containers at her, on Feb. 11 at noon. The containers hit her shoulder, and caused pain, but no serious injuries, according to police. Officers arrested Aida Dones, 44, at the hospital, cops said. Charges were not immediately available at the Kings County District Attorney’s office.

Shelter and Service Center Theft

-A 52-year-old woman residing at the Tillary Street Women’s Shelter realized on Feb. 15 that someone had removed seven checks from her pocketbook between Feb. 13 and 14, according to police. She told police at the 88th Precinct that the checks were cashed for a total of $1,700.

-An employee at a non-profit family services center on Fulton Street left her purse on her desk on Feb. 14 at 6 p.m., and came back ten minutes later to find it missing, police said. She told police an hour after she noticed the purse was missing that the bag contained a wallet and two debit cards.

-A woman staying at a family shelter on Auburn Street discovered on Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. that $2,150 in cash, $50 worth of postage stamps and a ruby ring were missing from her room, police said. She told police she believed someone had taken the items sometime between Jan. 30 and the day she reported the crime.

Thefts and Attempted Thefts

-Two women walked into the Project Hope thrift store on Vanderbilt Avenue on Feb. 14 at 3:30 p.m. and grabbed several sweaters, according to police. They then ran out of the store. Canvassing the area with officers an hour later, a store employee spotted the two women on the corner of Clinton Avenue and Fulton Street. They still had the sweaters, police said.

Police arrested Thea Burgos, 49, and Francesca Catalano, 46. Both women are charged with robbery in the second and third degrees, petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, menacing in the third degrees and harassment in the second degree, according to the Kings County District Attorney’s office.

-A 19-year-old woman who was taking a class at Long Island University forgot her wallet on a shelf in the school’s bathroom while she used the toilet on Feb. 11 at around 4 p.m., and when she returned three hours later, it was gone, police said. The wallet contained her social security card, two debit cards and $15.

-A 28-year-old woman parked her car on the corner of Classon Avenue and Emerson Street on Feb. 12 at 6 p.m., and came back five minutes later to discover the front driver’s side door unlocked, the trunk open, and her wallet missing from the glove compartment, police said. The wallet contained a few credit cards, her social security card and a Sephora gift card, according to police. She valued the items at $247.

-A 22-year-old man took a taxi back to his apartment on Clinton Avenue near Fulton Street on Feb. 14 at 11:45 p.m. The next afternoon, he received an email from his bank saying that $899 had been charged to his debit card, police said. The man told police that he believed the taxi driver had switched cards with him.

-A 43-year-old man parked his Honda Accord at the corner of Navy Street and Park Avenue at 6 p.m., and when he returned 40 minutes later, the car was gone, according to police. The police found automobile glass on the ground near the car. The man told police he had left the key in the car. The vehicle was later found on Union Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, cops said.

-A 29-year-old woman returned to her apartment in the Ingersoll Houses at 3 a.m on Feb. 15 after a seven-hour absence to find her door lock scratched and dented, according to police. She tried to use her key to get in, but the door was jammed, police said. She told police she suspected someone had attempted to break in.

Valentine’s Day Stabbing

A woman stabbed her 47-year-old husband in the left arm with a kitchen knife after an argument in their Ingersoll Houses apartment on Feb. 14 at 10 a.m., police reported. The husband was taken to the Brooklyn Hospital Center, police said.

Peter Moskowitz, a CUNY J-School graduate, is the current reporting fellow of The Local. Follow him @PeterMoskowitz on Twitter.

The 88thpct is doing a great job at catching nobody!!! Show me a list of murders and then show me the list of suspects arrested for them murders?????????? If it wasn’t for the local these murders,robberys and grand thefts will go unnotice!!!!!

Trust me im not sounding racial in anyway but all of u clueless & naive white who live in or thinkin about moving to the ft greene/c. hill area, WRONG CHOICE!! I use to lice there during the 90s & it was pretty wild. U really dont know what u are getting urselves into.

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In this crime report, locals told police that their belongings were stolen from cars and trucks, their homes were burglarized and their bank accounts were used in unauthorized ways. Also, disputes between significant others resulted in violence and robberies last week. The trend of robberies on the B38 bus continued last week, with another incident on May 4 marking the tenth such robbery in the precinct this year so far.

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